For lots of people, what makes a decision right or wrong depends on the outcome of that decision.
Does it increase or decrease the amount of happiness in the world? This kind of thinking is typical of consequentialism: an ethical school of thought that says what makes an action good or bad is, you guessed it, the consequences.
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